Of Majvr STED'E BOirNET. 1 1 1 



But then conftder how he invites all Sinners to * 



xome unto him, arid, rW he will give them rjfi?,Matt. 

 1 1. 28. foV he aiTures us, ty^tt he came to feek dnita 



J^t^ax whkk #W 7(>5f ^ Lukfe 1 9. i o. Mat. 1 8.11 . 



and hath promifed, that he that comth unto htm^ he 



^willin no wife caH- out^ John 6^ yj, 



So that it now you , will lincerely turn to him, 



! tho' ike, eyem 2X the eleventh Hour^ Mat. ^o. 6^ 9. 

 he ^vill receive you. 



But fiirely I need not tell ypw, that the ^m^i of 

 His Mercy is laith zxA Repentance. 



And do not miftake the Nature of Repentance 

 to be only a bare Sorrow for your Sins, ariling from 

 the Conlideration of the Evil and Vuni^mtnt they 

 have now brought upon you but your Sorrow 

 muft arile from the Confideratipn of your having 

 offended a gracious and merciful God. 



But 1 fliall not pretend to gi^fe you any particu- 

 lar Direftions as to the Nature of Repentance : I 

 confider that I fpeak to a Perfbn, whofe Offences 

 have proceeded not fo much from his not hnowing^ 

 as his flighting and negleBing his Duty : Neither is 

 it proper for me to give Advice out of the Way of 

 my own Profeflion. 



You may have that better delivered to you by 

 thofe who have made Divinity their particular 

 Study and who, by their Knowledge, as well as 

 their Office, as being the Ambajfadors ofChrift^ 2 Cor. 

 5. 20. are beft qualified to give you Inftru£lions 

 therein. 



I only heartily wilh, that what, in CompalHon 

 to your Sotil, I have now faid to you upon this 

 lad and folemn Occafion, by exhorting you in ge- 

 neral to Faith and Repentance^ may have that due 

 Effed upon you, that thereby you may become a 

 true Penitent. 



And therefore having now difcharged my Duty 

 to you as a Chrifiian, by giving you the beft Coun- 



fel 



